any REAPER users?

I use it.

 

I use it sparingly.

 

Reaper is what we use in our studio.

 

I've dabbled, but I don't use often (I use another DAW). I understand that Reaper is highly customizable though and that is probably the greatest thing about it.

 

Its a sweet bit o software

 

Me

6 or 7 years now

I just use it as it is. It's perfect.

 

I've used it for several years. The customization process can be complex, so the first thing to do is watch the ENTIRE series of Reaper How To videos by Kenny Gioia, HERE. It's free on Youtube and you'll be much farther along in your endeavor to execute scripts effectivly.

 

I have used Reaper for both a "band project" and my own home recordings. Even after several years of using it, I'm still learning and discovering things as I go along. I'm now aware of "scripts" in Reaper but I'm aware you can program a function key or button on your MIDI controller to perform a custom function. One guy made a "do over" button that would stop recording, "ctrl-Z" the recording just made, and then return the start point to get ready for another take.

The Kenny Goia videos are a great resource! One of his videos was extremely helpful in getting a control surface set up.

 

Just a few hundred, I imagine. Do a search and you'll find many, many threads about it.

 

Right here. Despite the potential for customization to fit your workflow, at its core it's very easy to get started tracking with Reaper; create a track, set the input, hit the big red button on the track, then the big red button in the toolbar. Organization, multiple takes, editing, mixing, even signal flow, all very easy and intuitive. Support for a wide variety of plugins, with a massive variety of very good ones out of the box. All that, for $60 for most users (the ones not making a living off using it).

REAPER sometimes gets lambasted for its low personal license price by people who say "if it's that cheap it must be garbage". Those guys don't realize that the team behind Reaper are the same guys who wrote WinAmp and sold it to AOL for $80 million (if you don't know what WinAmp and AOL are, ask your parents). The REAPER developer team don't need to make a ton of money off of it, they've been there done that. They write REAPER instead of building space rockets, as something to do to keep from going stir-crazy and building space rockets.

 

Plus they have (or had) a skatepark and jam space in their HQ.
Justin and team are awesomesauce

 

I use Reaper, and personally I prefer it to Cubase, which I also got.

 

I use Reaper. I used to use cool edit pro.

 

It's also cheap because it doesn't come with a lot of built in sounds, samples, instruments, etc.

 

The "Reaper User Manual" is widely available as a downloadable pdf and answers pretty much any question that a user can think of. What "documentation" is needed other than that?